When nasty weather causes power outages, DTE Energy crews are well-prepared to respond quickly and safely to get the lights back on for its customers. But on March 8, 2017, the severity of the damage and the magnitude of the impact was beyond anything ever before seen...

On a recent Friday afternoon, a large team of linemen converged on a backyard in Scio Township in Washtenaw County to help a family in need. Paul Schlack, foreman for Asplundh, a DTE Energy contract line crew, was planning maintenance work in a customer’s yard when he...

When DTE experienced the worst storm in company history this past March, tree trimmers and line workers weren’t the only DTE employees outside weathering the storm. No matter what the weather, Fossil Generation Fuel Supply equipment operators are working 24 hours a...

That’s the question many people are asking after the historic March 8 windstorm took down 12,000 power lines, leaving more than 800,000 DTE Energy customers in the dark. While burying power lines may seem like a logical solution, the reality is putting lines...

When the winds subsided on March 8, 2017, we could immediately tell that this was the largest weather-related outage in our company’s proud 100-year history. Our line workers and underground splicers were out in the field, securing the 12,000 power lines that had come...